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1st Bryan Benwitz, with a 4-0 +401 record, notched another first-place finish, making him the weekly champion three out of the last four sessions. His path to an undefeated record was not easy, but he still averaged a weighty 454 points per game through the course of his four wins. Richard Lauder came closest to beating him, but Bryan prevailed 446-414, thanks in part to a stylish find of UPCURVE (the next-shortest word containing CPUUV that isn't an UPCURVE variant is NUNCUPATIVE). Bryan then faced the Reinke gauntlet but left relatively unscathed by the ordeal, beating Charles 500=326 and Thomas 435-348. TALIONS, NITERIE, SNUGGED, TENNIST, and LITHIUM were his bingos in those two games. With an undefeated session on the line, Bryan went up against Beth Amos and again won comfortably, 435-327, getting down STEEPED and DILATIVE for some timely fifty-point bonuses.

2nd Thomas Reinke went 3-2 +188, well behind Bryan's stellar record but still good enough for second place. Things didn't start off so well for Thomas as he was felled by his fraternal foe Charles Reinke, 451-478. Thomas got WAGERED and a triple-triple RESTATES, the latter for 122 points, but Charles one-upped him with INEXPERT for 125, in addition to AERIEST and DANDRIFF (an archaic spelling of DANDRUFF). A much-anticipated rematch in the final round saw Thomas get his revenge, 457-346, thanks to finds of LAKIEST and WAGMOIRE# (an archaic spelling of QUAGMIRE only valid in the international lexicon). A 509-372 win over Lynda Finn was Thomas' best showing, and the only game where he got three bingos: DILDOES, ELECTRON, and GREENIES.

3rd Charles Reinke went 3-2 -42. His two-on-one matchup against Lynda Finn and Thomas Reinke was quite fruitful, yielding two wins (498-285 against Lynda and 478-451 against Thomas) and five bingos. A 326-500 loss to Bryan Benwitz, with the high-probability SENATOR being his only bingo, damaged Charles' spread total in round two. Charles barely came away with the win when he faced off against Beth Amos; their three-point margin (411-408 for Charles) was the most closely-contested game of the night. Both players had two bingos: DIALING and ENATIONS for Beth, ACTINAL and SOLVERS for Charles.

1st Bryan Benwitz continued his strong 2023 campaign with a 3-1 +397 record. He had the highest score of the session when he dropped a hefty total of 553 points right on top of Richard Lauder, who scored decently enough with a 368 score but still fell way short of victory. GALLEON, CULTURED, SNOUTIER, and the plausible-but-phony IMPASTI* were the bingos played by Bryan, who will probably remember going forward that IMPASTO pluralizes with an S despite being an Italian word. Richard got NESTABLE and OVERWISE to bring the total number of bingos in the game to six. A subsequent game against John Bialek was quite a bit closer, but Bryan emerged with a 428-345 win thanks to his monster 112-point play of QUAFFERS, which made John's bingo of INROADS for 64 points look quite timid in comparison. 3-0 going into the final round, Bryan was eyeing an undefeated record, but as so often happens at our club, his hopes were dashed right at the end, as he fell to Charles Reinke, 416-496. Bryan got down MANEGES and VETERANS in the loss, while Charles got HEARTENS, DOUBTING, and SAINFOIN.

2nd Mark Kenas, long burdened with the unenviable task of playing Reinkes night after night after night, shook off the shackles of tedium to go 3-1 +244. Being a competitor in the international Collins lexicon, his bingo list is usually riddled with words which are invalid in the North American list, but fear not, dear reader, all his bingos this night are good in NWL. He opened the night with a 500-315 win against Thomas Reinke, playing LORGNON, BIENNIAL, and TENORITE while Thomas struggled to a single bingo of TRENISE#. A solid pair of wins against Charles Reinke followed, 430-356 and 455-438. Again, Mark had three bingos in each: VARMENTS, ASSOILED, and AROINTS in the first, UNDULATE, KELOIDS, and TERRIERS in the second. The fourth round saw Mark suffer a similar fate to Bryan, sitting at 3-0 and then losing the final game, this one to Thomas, 484-516.

3rd Thomas Reinke went 3-2 +65, beating a similarly-monikered foe by just three spread points to take third place. A two-on-one outing in the first round went quite poorly for Thomas, as he lost 315-500 to Mark Kenas and 458-499 to the similarly-monikered foe Charles Reinke. As usual, the brothers bingoed relentlessly on each other; Thomas had ENARGITE#, RATIFIER, and SWOOPER vs. Charles' LIVIDER#, QUEEREST, and RELANDS. Thomas rebounded from his rough start to win the next three, starting with a 476-289 win against Ron Malzer, thanks to bonuses of SERVANT and RATTIER. Sara McLaughlin put up a good fight but also lost to Thomas, 403-331, her find of MUTTONS matched by Thomas' OPIATES. The final round saw Thomas get his revenge on Mark in a very bingoey way, playing COESITE, TATTLERS, ENORMITY, and DOUANES# for the 516-484 win.

Helen Flores' CHEDDARS was chosen as word of the week because this is Wisconsin.

1st Thomas Reinke bolstered his campaign for 2023 club champion with another fine outing, going 4-1 +533 and averaging 477 points per game. He racked up a huge amount of spread in the first round when he had the good fortune of being the "one" in a two-on-one match against Mark Kenas and Richard Lauder. He cleanly dispatched Richard with a 570-334 victory, but saved most of his scoring power for his game against Mark, where he won 575-437. Against Mark he played five bingos: FEATOUS#, TURNHALL, CONSUME, STIRRER, and DARTING. Mark got his revenge a little bit later in the night, as a rematch did not go Thomas' way, the final score being 385-429 in Mark's favor. A quite relevant bingo of BULLYING as played by Mark, in addition to BERLINES and REGRATED; Thomas found VALIDATE but was not able to get a second bingo which he dearly needed. The bingo mojo returned for Thomas in the final game as he played four bonus plays (TURNABLE, UNHAIRED, STOPGAPS, DELTOIDS) in a 475-324 victory versus Dennis Lloyd.

2nd Bryan Benwitz finished at 3-1 +305, and his impressive 438-points-per-game average in the four games actually LOWERED his yearly average, which stood at 440 before Wednesday's slate of games. Bryan got off to a hot start in the very first game when his three bingos of IGNORER, EXTOLLS, and RADIUSES launched him to a 426-338 win against Charles Reinke. Reinke honor was upheld in the next game when Bryan suffered his only defeat, a 330-482 loss to Thomas Reinke. However, that Reinke honor was partially squandered thanks to Thomas' 102-point phony of FORESAY*, which is acceptable in the international Collins lexicon but not the American lexicon. Bryan finished strong with a 505-305 win over newcomer Margie Van Handel, as well as a 492-323 win against Richard Lauder, who, as the founder of the club, is the exact opposite of a newcomer. Bryan's bingo list in those two games was CANDIDA, MANSION, RELETTER, EVERSION, and MARCHESI. MARCHESI is a good word to know simply because it serves as an I hook onto the word MARCHES (MARCHESE and MARCHESA are also valid).

As alluded to earlier, we welcomed Margie Van Handel as she bravely made her first trip to our club. She displayed considerable skill in defeating Sara McLaughlin 400-398 in her first game, playing STINTER for 72 points in her winning effort. Welcome Margie!